You don’t need Adsense to Make Money

I receive weekly emails or messages on my Facebook Fan Page or Google+ account telling me that if you’re banned from Adsense, you can’t make money online.

While there are many ways to make money online, one of the easiest ways to monetize a website is with Google Adsense. Google is the biggest Search Engine in the world and they have a super big advertising network based on CPC.

The advantage you have with Google Adsense is that their Ad inventory is so large, that you can monetize any website in any language and almost in any niche.

There are many Adsense alternatives out there, and some of them are very good. Adsense is a monetization technique I still use but it’s definitely not my main income, however, it’s great for starters, and every day I receive emails, messages or comments where I read how many people lost their Adsense account and they say the alternatives don’t work as well.

Today, I’m here to show you a few payments I’ve received from other Adsense alternatives that have worked well for me.

But first…

How does an Advertising Network decides how much and when to pay you?

This is the first question you should ask yourself before anything. This will basically answer all your questions. If you’ve tried any alternative without luck, this might be the reason you’re not earning money.

There are different Advertising networks nowadays. We have:

CPC networks: pay per each click (Adsense, Chitika, Adversal and others). Great for niche sites and SEO.

CPM networks: pay per 1k impressions (Mylikes, Taboola, Tribal Fusion, etc). Great for websites with tons of traffic, no matter which niche.

Once you understand this, you’ll know which network is the best for you and the reasons behind it.

Adsense is a CPC network, so you make money per each click you receive. They have a large inventory from all the countries, so no matter which country your traffic is coming from, they probably have something to show them. Click costs will range from $0.05 up to more than $100 per click.

For reference, my average CPC on this blog (I don’t use Adsense at this moment), is around $5 per click. But this is a hot niche and most of my traffic comes from the USA.

However, I use some alternatives that have been working really great on other niches like Media.Net and Adversal.

Update: Adversal closed their publishers program and I’m not sure when they’ll open it again.

Here is some proof:

I made a total of $295 from Adversal in March. Then I received my payment at the end of April as they pay NET30. April and May earnings decreased to an average of $150, but June and July have been great so far (I made over $660 last month). I’ve been receiving Adversal’s payments for 6 months already.

If you’re interested in Media Net make sure to check our full Media.Net Review here.

And as a matter of fact, all my small niche sites where I’m using Media.net receive no more than 100-200 visits per day. So less then 6k visits per month. What’s the secret?

SEO Traffic.

Yes. The secret to earn money with Media.Net or even Adsense, is to have search engine traffic (organic). If you receive direct traffic, paid traffic or social traffic your CPC will be lower and you won’t make as much as I make.

Why?

Because SEO traffic converts a lot better than referral or organic traffic, and because the ads can be generated based on the search queries too.

Adsense pays a lot more for SEO traffic (hence I have $5 CPC on average) but the difference with Adsense is that you CAN make money even with Social or other types of traffic because Adsense is a program from Google. And if you use Google as a search engine, or if you use Chrome, GMail, Android, etc. Google can see the websites you’re surfing and the emails you’re receiving, and then put some convenient banners in front of your readers without them coming from search engine traffic. You won’t have $5 clicks, but you will earn at least a cents per click (usually $0.05 or more).

Conclusion

1. If you have an Adsense account. Use it wisely. It’s a big asset.

2. If you don’t have an Adsense account or you were banned but you have search traffic, try Adversal or Media.Net. Don’t forget Chitika works with English based websites only.

3. If you have paid traffic or traffic coming from social media sites and similar instead of search traffic, use a CPM Network! Tribal Fusion, Taboola and Mylikes have great CPM rates!

4. If you have targeted traffic in a certain niche, use CPA networks to maximize your profits. I’ll talk more about how to monetize almost any keyword with CPA networks in the near future, but I mentioned some of them in my Adsense Alternatives list.

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Hello, I am the administrator of AzComicsEs.Blogspot.com we are a growing blog and I am currently looking for monetization options, recently our AdSense account was disabled for not complying with the policies. Even if it manages to reach $ 100 before inactivation.

Our blog has more than +8000 visits per day, and 223,000 visits per month, but we did not achieve a good advertising method. All organic searchs, we are a niche page. All our visits are from comic book fans, from Spain, Latinamerica, Mexico or USA. We need the money to be able to buy a Domain and Hosting. Spanish: Hola Servando, soy el admin de AzComicsEs.Blogspot.com somos un blog en crecimiento y actualmente estoy buscando opciones de monetizacion, recientemente nuestra cuenta de AdSense fue inabilitada por no cumplir con las politicas. Aunque logre llegar a los 100$ antes de la inactivacion.

Hi Servando, My website is NeilHosting.com I recently applied for Adsense but they reply with this

As mentioned in our welcome email, we conduct a second review of your AdSense application once AdSense code is placed on your site(s).

We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below

Site does not comply with Google policies: We’re unable to approve your AdSense application at this time because your site does not comply with the Google AdSense program policies or adhere to the Webmaster Quality guidelines. It’s our goal to provide our advertisers sites that offer rich and meaningful content, receive organic traffic, and allow us to serve well-targeted ads to users. We believe that currently your site does not fulfill this criteria.

Here are some recommendations to help you improve the user experience on your site and comply with AdSense criteria:

It’s important for sites displaying Google ads to offer significant value to the user. As a publisher, you must provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first. Don’t place ads on auto-generated pages or pages with little to no original content. Your site should also provide a good user experience through clear navigation and organization. Users should be able to easily click through your pages and find the information they’re seeking. ———————

To update and resubmit your application, please visit google.com/adsense and sign in using the email address and password you submitted with your application. Our specialists will review your account for compliance with our program policies, so please make sure to resolve all of the issues listed above before resubmitting your application.

For more information, visit our Help Center or search the AdSense Help Forum, where a community of publishers shares AdSense best practices.

Hi, I have opened up a website which is running a healthy competition. the person with max no. of votes gets the prize cash ever week. Adsense’s policy doesn’t comply with that. So my Adsense isn’t activating. What do I do? Also, most of my traffic is directed from Facebook and Instagram. Help me out, please.

H thankx for the article i have aviral website viraleex.com and approved from adsense but all m’y traffic are paid with facebook ads and other companies … Is media.net better … And can i use 3ads diffirent companies cpm . cpc . cpa . in one webite

Thanks so much for this amazing post! I applied for google adsense over 4 weeks ago and still no reply. The traffic on my site is quite low about 20 -30 visits from social media. That said I’m quite new to blogging. Can you please advice me on any other ads company to use while I wait for adsense? My traffic is mostly from the US, India and Nigeria. Thanks so much

Am just trying to get some alternatives on Adsense because it has been months and still no approval…am looking for alternatives that are not sparmy with a million redirects… I checked out propellerads but am feeling hesitant as am seeing reviews claiming they have so many redirects any advice

Wow! Nice article! Bro, can you please help me out getting AdSense approved. Why AdSense keeps rejecting me? What’s the problem? Is it because of some posts? AdSense always sends me the same reply after getting disapproved. What can I do? Please help me

This is a very informative post. I have a blog and an adsense account but i do not make much from it. In fact, I make almost nothing. I have a tech blog with about 1.5k page views a months. I am trying to increase this number.

I wish to ask what is the best way to monetize my blog with such number of page views and an average of about 40 visitors a day. Thanks

My adsense account has been temporarily suspended for 30 days. But I planned not to use it again on my website but only on my YouTube channel once I get my account back, I want to know, is this a safe idea.

Hey Servando, Appreciate such a research. I have direct traffic coming to my website from my android app. Adsense rejected me, Tried media.net with low rpm, propeller ads are somewhat intrusive, may be I need cpm based as clicks are rare. Most traffic comes from India. Would be grateful if you share any ideas what I could try next for higher rpm?

pls can i submit another website that is not mine for Google AdSense and track my website after the approver my website url us. You can use a second website of your own for the approval and then run ads in all of your websites, but you need to OWN the website or ask somebody who has a website like a friend to validate it for you in his website.

No, you can’t. You need to own the website so you can add the code and validate it with Google. You can use a second website of your own for the approval and then run ads in all of your websites, but you need to OWN the website or ask somebody who has a website like a friend to validate it for you in his website.

Almost all webmasters use Adsense to monetize their traffic.But are also good alternative to use for your traffic.Tribaladnetwork is a cpc ad network that pay also for conversions and have a decent cpc rate.

hello friends i have mylikes.com make 40 dollars per day with facebook group, after my payment i see the page ask page fans facebook, but i dont have page fans, coz facebook delete my pages coz i used fans2cash, i have only one i see facebook hide my page cant put it visible. i want verified mylikes.com with a page. the aks page verified o 10 000 likes, i dont have. im looking for someone with a fans page who can verified my mylikes.com. can do it like i say?

This post was an eye-opener for me. Thank you! I’m very new to affiliate marketing (+- 6 weeks in) and have furiously been building out a website that I’m proud of. Yesterday I got rejected by Google Adsense. I’m so enjoying all this stuff and have put in a lot of work so I’m quite sad.

The rejection letter mentioned “Adult Content” – my site is for midlife women’s fitness in body, soul and spirit, and I myself am quite conservative, so this was a shock. There is no content on there that I’m ashamed to show my children… I think that maybe some of the fitness pics, or my banner was deemed “adult”. No idea. Also, I’ve been researching this to try and make it right, and short of changing the entire look and feel of my site, I think I may be wasting my time of ever being approved by Adsense. I say this because of my domain name which I can’t change: maturewomanfitness.com. I’m thinking that they may think my site is a porn site with the word “mature” in it, which to me just means “advanced in years and wisdom” 🙁

Do you think they would reject me merely on the basis of domain name, even if I take out any remotely “provocative” gym pics? Which of your recommendations above would be the closest alternative for me?

Hello Natalie. You can always apply later. there can be many reasons but the domain name certainly looks like one of them. Adsense has been very hard to get approved lately, but once you have more content or articles you can try again later.

Mature content is normally referred to adult content, so I suspect it’s the reason and not your gym pics which don’t seem to be provocative at all.

Hello sirvando, i’m having a real bad luck trying to get approved with adsense or media.net it seems My site vioLates their policies. I already tried looking what exactly is the problem, but i just cant find something thAt woNt get me approved. Could it be because i Used my previous shopify domain? Or what? Could you please take a look at it? And help me pleEeeeassseeee!

You can try some of the alternative ad networks I linked in the article. As for affiliate marketing what you need is to sign up in a program like Amazon Affiliates to promote products and earn a commission per each sale.

This is really great for me because as a blogger am always looks to generate some revenue. but still unable to make any online income my site is around websiteguide.cOM can you guide me how I can make some money from this site and let me know if there is any problem with the site

hi, I had stop using chitika for about 8 months and decided to start using again, My user name and password still work but after placing the ads on my website i get an error code whenever i click on the ads ((( Something has gone wrong and we are unable to forward you on to the merchant/advertiser you were interested in. This is not your fault. If you see this error repeatedly though, please contact Chitika support . Be sure to mention the time of day, and this reference number: 729b2e52d04d77f442a9b5713c7f088d Sorry for the inconvenience! )) Do you have any idea how to fix this or any advise Best regards

I have been searching online how to make money from a website and came across your posts which are a good ready. I’m not that good with tech or savvy to pick what would work best for our website. I am currently looking to increase traffic and page 1 google rankings with Fiveer but cant seem to find the right people to help with what I need to progress.

My blog site currently gets around 25,000 hits per day but hopefully this will grow hopefully once I get advice on a few tweeks. I was wondering if you would be kind enough to help me to find out what would work best and how to implement it.

Fiverr won’t help you get better rankings, honestly. You need to do a good SEO job and $5 is not even close to doing something bad. I don’t give personal coaching at this point so I can’t really go on a site by site basis.

You’ve Inspired me! But I have some question, I have a traffic that referral from Facebook ( around 200 a day unique visitor ) and It’s Indonesia Website. I’ve already applied Google Adsense and not get a good response… Is that good for me to use Chitika or Adversal?

hey bro first of all i would like to thank you for this incredible post. i have a indian tech/hacking related blog having 300 page views per day and all traffic is from google can you tell me which will best for me to monetize my blog.

hi, I have started my website recently in between I lost the hosting of the website due to other reasons. so, I am starting all over again. Can i register now for any of this things you suggested in the goggle alternatives or shall i wait for some time. There will be any difference in pay depending upon the hosting like self hosting or else someother companies like hostgator, blue host etc hosting our site. I hope u reply thank you .

Last month was my first month of trying chitika, and i made 26 usd. At the end of the month, my balance in my dashboard turned to zero, both the Mtd and total earnings are zero. What does it mean? have they sent my payment or what? Or have they cancelled my earnings?

This is great post… Hey servindo please advise me how to rise my seo… By social or what is method since I have website attractionsfortour(dot) blogspot(dot) com How much share require to get goodtraffic. I am currently using traffic exchange to rise my rank Do will it effect any bag to my site Please write

I just got approved for adversal BUT I’m using adsense on my website. Can I use Adversal with adsense? I get like 250,000 views a month all social media traffic. What can i do monetize my website better? Im already using taboo too.

I love the fact that you stick with adversal as a good ad network throughout the comment and you make sure you respond to almost all comments. I will surely try adversal only that my monthly visits is 40000 now. Please i want to ask if wp statistics plugin in wordpress is reliable. I have about 11000 visitors and 38800 visits last month

my blog is barely a month old , is quite of a discussion blog on spot, the articles are not that very much. around 20 , because i try to be current. please is there any add company that will be willing to put their adds on my blog

Hi, I just started my website it has low traffic right now around 300 – 400 user daily and 10,000 page view monthly around 3,500 user monthly right now i am using revenue hits and hardly making any revenue can you please suggest me some reliable websites so i can make some decent money

I heard that pop up ads pays highest money and yes my traffic is mostly social Thanks

how does this work/ how to you link it with YouTube videos in place of linking YouTube with adsense? Or is it just meant for ads to go on your website/blog and not YouTube. I only care about getting paid from YouTube/ making money from video views.

Hello, I have an approved adsense account before but suddenly the ads stop displaying on my site and since then my earnings stopped. Please my question is what can be the cause and how i can i resolve this issue for my code to display ads again? Instead of deleting the account and opening another one. Thanks.

I am not getting an AdSense approval for my blog: http://www.teczoz.com. It says my blog do not comply with google policies, what I should do next? Should I fix all problems and request again, or should go for an alternative? Thanks 🙂

I have a brand new website a little over a month old. I am trying to generate revenue for the site and get a good flow of traffic to it. The current ad system we use is through CPMStar if you are familiar with them. Can you recommend something that might work better or are they good or what do you think? I would appreciate any insight and help.

I am new to ads and trying to get them displayed on my new company website. I have gone through the setup process for Google Adsense but I am told it is being reviewed but not approved as of yet. I have heard it takes severals weeks is this true? Also I heard with Google Adsense if for example someone is searching for Shampoo then they come to my site it will show ads for Shampoo is this correct? Our site is a news/media/publishing company in the video game industry covering everything nerd related. What would you suggest for me in the current scenario? I would prefer to have an ad system that shows game ads on my site only. Thank you for your help in advanced.

It’s true. It can take up a few weeks before they approve you. Yes, that’s correct too, but that’s fine cause if they are looking for shampoo they won’t arrive to your page.

Ad4Game is a great network but I think they require at least 500,000 visitors per month to accept you. I’d start with Adsense, Propeller Ads or Revenue Hits and then move to other networks when you’ve got more traffic to sell.

I tried the Revenue Hit and within a few hours I was getting complaint of browser hijacks and trojan alerts. I took them down immediately and went back to Adversal.

One of the issues I am having with all networks I’ve tried (including Adversal and Qadabra) is that they have ads that force open the iTunes/Play stores on mobile phones. I had to remove ads from the mobile version of my site because users were complaining and I am losing a big chunk of revenue because of it. Any suggestions for a decent network that post banner ads only?

Hello Bill. I know what you’re talking about. Honestly, most networks will have those app store/play store ads because they’re doing big revenue at this moment. Some advertisers use landers and some of them just redirect you straight to the app store.

What you can do is talk to your manager on the network and ask them to move your website to another category were app installs don’t get advertised (just tell him this and he will know what you’re talking about). This might have a negative hit on your revenue, just FYI.

I added Propeller Ads Media to my adsense alternatives list and most people have been reporting better ads compared to Revenue Hits. You could try those as well 🙂 but expect some apps to be promoted there too as it’s what’s super hot at this moment in the mobile market.

Hey ! Great article. i have made a micro niche site with $2 + cpc. but i don’t have organic traffic(search engine). and my cpc is very low that’s $0.15-$0.20. but let me know if i have receive visitors form high PR (PR 8 ) and that visitors click on my adsense ad. then what ? will i receive high CPC or not? thank you

No. Adsense clicks CPC depends on auctions, search traffic and your content. Referral traffic will always have lower CPC, and it doesn’t matter if they’re coming from a PR 0 page or a PR 8 page. In fact, PR doesn’t matter that much for Google anymore.

Hey ! Great article. I’m thinking of using Tribal Fusion for my website. As I am not getting traffic from search engine. Its all the traffic redirected from my previous site. My website is get 5k hits per day then how much can I make with tribalfusion, adversal, chitika or revenue hits?

Servando, thanks for the info. This is my website postsforall.com. I got rejected by google for the 2nd time. So now i want to try something else. Currently i’m getting near about 5k visitor per month. Mostly visitor are from USA (more than 60%) and traffic source is Social Referral (Google plus), Direct, Search Engine.. So can you please check my website and suggest me the best alternative?

I’m really impressed about your article,before reading this post I think Adwords is the only way to earn money online and there is no way to earn money if Adsense banned to the website. thanks for this valuable article and I’m going to try alternative methods for my website.

Hello.. I could say affiliate marketing is the best and easy way to make money on-line for those who got fed up with adsence. Im making more than 20,000 USD per month by only via affiliate sales. Thanks for the post.

Dear servando, I have heard that google get a chance to make a website free with GYBO.com. for one year for Indian. After one year he take charge. So Can I make a website with GYBO and monetize the site with chitika.